What are the most annoying things you see on the SDMB?

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Well, I typically avoid “me too” posts, and they can annoy me at times, but I really wanted to say that I agree with absolutely everything Ooner said. Damn him for beating me to it!

People who don’t seem to understand that thoughtful, thought-provoking debates can happen in The Pit. Some of the most informative debates I’ve ever read has happened in The Pit.

People who say “and since is the Pit, fuck you!” Not necessary folks.

People who leave, come back, leave, come back, leave, come back and make an announcement each time.

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What is annoying me now:

  • the way some posters here think their (that is, American) politics are interesting to anyone else in the world. I hate it when threads are getting interesting, then all of a sudden, BAM! Thread is killed dead by republicans/democrats getting their shirts all knotted. B-O-R-I-N-G. Save it for political threads, pleasepleaseplease?

  • I agree whole-heartedly with what ianzin said about sexism against men. The “idiot man-child” stereotype is unkind, untrue, and no better than any of the stereotypes about women that we rail against so vociferously.

  • the way certain subjects and attitudes are taboo on this board and to post anything remotely resembling a belief contrary to the prevailing flavour here gets you jumped on real hard, real fast. I’m not talking about offensive, sexist, racist, hurtful opinions; just opinions that differ from the majority here. We pretend we are very open-minded and free-thinking here, but sometimes that just falls down. I’m not saying it has to change, or that it’s wrong or whatever; I’m just saying it annoys me.

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About the only thing bugging me lately is the habit some posters have of putting their screenname at the end of their post. It just ain’t that hard for me to slide my peepers left a notch and up a tad to see who wrote the post.

And, yeah…the “Hi, Opal” thing is worn out, too.

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Reponses to a post consisting of little more than :rolleyes: or :rolleyes: + “Ummmm yeah.” If you can’t say anything more intelligent, then why bother? Does your post count need to be any higher? Or do you just get a woodie out of seeing your own name in the Forum listing? Jesus Narcissistic Christ… :confused:

I don’t mind the “Hi Opal” stuff, but I do mind that the inside joke itself is typically used improperly. It’s meant to be the third item of a normally two-item bulleted list, not the 3rd item of a 4+ item bulleted list.

I do hate the weekly thread of “Who is Opal?” and “What does ‘Hi Opal’ mean?” Use the goddamn Search!

[sub]None of the above is intended to be a criticism or flame against OpalCat in any way…[/sub]

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What are the most annoying things I see on the SDMB?

-movie, music, and book snobs
-people who correct spelling and grammer
-inside jokes…they are just plain rude
-movie, music, and book snobs
-movie, music, and book snobs

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grammar :smiley:

[sub]sorry, but I HAD to do it.[/sub]

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Post counts and registered dates in the forums, just a minor little thing about this board that seems to rankle me. They don’t have any merit, any that I can think of, for the forums. IMHO they should be in the 'ole personal profile, and that’s it.

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But what about movie, music, and book snobs?

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…that Cafe Society has become Cafe Star Wars/Trek. Broaden your horizons, dude…

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My personal, oft-in-the-past stated pet Board peeve is Great Debates related, and it is this: The statement or implication that if others disagree with you, it is not through legitimate differences of opinion, but because they are stupid – because of course any person who truly understood your point would bow at the sheer brilliance of it. This type of patronizing driving me fucking nuts.

The other thing I hate, though not with the rage of a thousand suns with which I hate the above, is posts in great debate that start “I haven’t read the whole thread, but . . . blah blah blah.” Listen, you moron, if you’d bothered to read the whole thread you’d have seen that six people already made all the points you did, and better; the points were refuted or conceded; and the thread participants have all moved on. If you can’t be bothered to read the whole thread, stay the hell out of it.

Thank you.

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I hate the fact that someone like *me * is allowed to have 3500 posts and nothing of import in one of them.

I thought it was just me that noticed the Cafe Society/Star Trek/Sci-fi/Fantasy room.

Fuck Zette! :smiley:

It slays me that I cannot come up with the mental ammo to chop some poster down to size as well as most of you here. How dare you be smarter and more eloquent that me.

Newbies that bitch about how ‘good the good old days were’, like last week.

I find it an absolute slap in the face that I have never been the subject of a pit rant.

I find it an absolute kick in the groin that I have never been the subject of a *We love you Shirley * thread.

I am in conflicted obscurity. :smiley:
::::::::::::::: off to change my sig so’s not to offend anyone::::::::

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We love you Shirley. Even when you double post. :slight_smile:

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:::::::;GAH!::::::::::

My computer froze up on me and looky what happened!

Which brings me to my biggest gripe: lame excuses for double posts.

Pssst: smooch to Jodi!

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“X is the only group it is still acceptable to make fun of”

Funny how I’ve seen that exact comment made for at least 10 different groups. Everybody is just so persecuted. :rolleyes:

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Now THAT I have no problem with :slight_smile:

It’s not so much the “Hi Opal” jokes, it’s that we’re no longer a small group of people here, and you practically never see it without someone interrupting the thread to ask “What is this “hi Opal” business?” That’s what’s so irritating.

By the way, I wasn’t the first to mention that this trend would be nice to see go away- check “ATMB” with the word “Opal” and see the threads there.

Zette

And oh yeah- “Fuck Zette”

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It bugs me when people say things like “I know I’m just a newbie, but…”. I know newbies can feel like their opinions don’t carry as much weight as a veteran posters’-- heck, I felt that way myself way back when-- but I cannot recall a single time anyone criticized someone’s opinion simply because the poster was new. So long as your post is coherent, relevant, and pleasant to read, most people won’t care what your registration date is. Maybe some folks have come from boards that did that, and they can’t be faulted for being cautious. But it doesn’t take much lurking to see that that kind of immaturity isn’t tolerated here.

In multiple-page threads, occasionally people will post and say “I haven’t read the other posts, but…”. Usually, the content of their posts makes it obvious-- they reiterate a previously posted point of view, or ask an already-answered question. Not only is this annoying, it’s also rude. Why should anyone read your posts if you didn’t read anyone else’s first? Thankfully, this doesn’t happen very often.

I also wish people would stop apologizing for the length of their long-ish posts. Chances are, if it’s a long post and I made it to the apology at the end without getting bored and skipping to the next post, the post was just fine. I would go as far to say that most people don’t care about post lengths so long as it’s relevant, clear, informative, pleasant to read.

I never cared for the practice of “rating” Pit OPs, or abruptly changing the topic within a Pit thread. If that’s all you can think of to post, then you shouldn’t be posting to that thread. If the OP is that retarded, you should just let the thread die.

If I had to pick one thing that annoyed me the most, though, it’d have to be the complaints about the editing feature being disabled. I’m tired of hearing the “we can do it on other boards, why not this one?” whines, and I’m tired of seeing the many ATMB and Pit threads on it. What bugs me is not so much that there’s been endless posting about it, but that those people aren’t taking advantage of the Preview feature. Early on I made it a habit to preview before submitting my posts; it’s totally ingrained now. Moreover, it’s not like you need to preview in order to check a post-- it can be done from the reply window. It just takes patience. Apparently, that’s too much to expect from some posters.

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I saw this just this week. The poster involved was being an ass, but his newbieness was being called into question as well as his assness. We’re not blameless of this here.

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Was this a joke and I got whooshed? Cause this exact point was made on page one of this thread.

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SPOOFE - I guess what I mean by movie, music, and book snob is someone that ingores what is popular simply because that is what it is.

For instance, say the thread is about favorite movies and generally people are posting well known movies and someone comes along and posts a huge list of movies that most won’t have even heard of - and then adding a sentence below saying something that assumes everyone should have heard of all these movies when they know full well it won’t be the case. That kind of annoys me. I guess it just seems to me that they are trying far too hard to come across as being one of the enlightened few. Seems a bit pretentious to me.

I’m not saying it’s not okay to like movies that most won’t have heard of…different is good, I’m just saying don’t write your post such that you expect people to be experts on them.

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I hate misspelled or otherwise screwed up thread titles. Misspelling in the post is one thing, but for fuck’s sake, proofread the 6 words in your thread title! How hard is that?

I hate that there is an edit and “logged” button, etc., which I cannot access. What’s the point? If I can’t access these things, don’t show them to me!

I hate pit rants from overly sensitive types. Hey, sorry that the checkout girl was rude to you today. It’s not worth a pit thread, though.

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Now that I see my own post count, I hate the fact that I’ve been reading and posting on this message board for almost 3 years now, but I only have 380 posts (381 now, woohoo!). I guess there’s no one I can blame besides myself, though.